Belonging

Guideline: Students with a sense of belonging feel accepted, respected, and valued by their peers and instructors and can engage more fully in learning.

“…when students enter settings in which their group is underrepresented and negatively stereotyped, they contend with psychological challenges that other students do not face. They must make sense of daily adversities, which could seem to signal a global lack of belonging, and they contend with high levels of stress and threat.”